But Mr. Hay focused on the particularity of things, like the faintly speckled texture and frayed perforations of toilet-paper squares, rather than creating generic icons.
It must have been suffocating to be so mixed up like that, especially for Brennan, who was obsessed with the particularity of things.
George became famous for his polar explorer's gear, which enabled him to paint outside in most weathers, but above all he was celebrated for his devotion to the particularity of things, especially trees, and English light and atmosphere, and his ability to render all this most beautifully and memorably into the language of paint.
Frege says that "the firmest proof is obviously the purely logical, which, prescinding from the particularity of things, is based solely on the laws on which all knowledge rests" (1879, p. 48; see also 1885, where the universal applicability of the arithmetical concepts is taken as a sign of their logicality).
General semantics is a branch of linguistics founded by Alfred Korzybski in the 1930's that theorized that words are abstractions that draw attention away from the particularity of the things they represent.
"It is only the dullness of the eye that makes any two things seem alike," Walter Pater said, and the idea of the uniqueness, particularity and value of things carries over from objects to the circumstances of life.
A problem that remained troublesome concerns the fact that one often wants to assign probabilities to particular events, events that in the nature of things cannot be repeated in all their particularity.
It is also a question of understanding that, no matter particularities of a story or idiosyncrasies of a character, the stakes are often the same: love, sex, money, power, all the things it is Dano's job to communicate.
According to the brief, a "particularity requirement" mandates that a warrant specifically describe the exact place to be searched or a list of things to be seized.
The particularity, even idiosyncrasy, of the objects in this collection is one of the many ways that gaps and cracks will be felt, emerging precisely in the imperfect fit of things one to another.
They cannot account for the particularities of healthcare, where contextual (social, cultural, personal, and interactional) factors play a fundamental role in what, and how, things are done.
